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I think the consensus take seem to be:
The tower looks great
It is great that the podium is wrapped with residences and not screened parking
The residence wrapped podium doesn't look great
But it could be slightly better once the ground floor retail opens
Yeah the tower is sharp but im sorry that base is atroce. Why is there that shorter part? Its just so bad. I wasn't even sure that was part of the development at first. And are all those bath and kitchen.vents stuck.everywhere?
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Amenities go wild at luxe apartments: Music studios, rooftop dog parks, bed making by app

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November 12, 2021


An exterior view of the upscale high-rise Kurve on Wilshire near Koreatown.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

As part of your rent at the new $300-million apartment building called Kurve on Wilshire, you can get a weekly visit from a housekeeper who will make your bed to hotel standards, load your dishwasher, tidy the place up and take out the trash.

Housekeeping will also deliver your mail to your unit, and box up and return items you bought online that you decide not to keep. That’s just for starters, all available for a fee through a phone app.

Assistants will do your grocery shopping and put food away in your fridge at a cost of 5% of the total bill. The same goes for dry cleaning and laundry, which will be hung in your closet. Additional services available through the tenants’ app include pharmacy pickups, basic tailoring and a tech “concierge” to help with your computer problems.

The pampering is not unique to Kurve, located near Koreatown, which is attempting to compete in a crowded upper-tier market. Floridly luxurious apartment buildings have a long history in Los Angeles, and the appetite for deluxe living quarters has been unabated by the pandemic as rents continue to rise.

Dobbins’ is president of Hankey Investment Co., which developed Kurve with Jamison Properties. The Los Angeles-based team also developed Circa, a $500-million twin-tower apartment complex across the street from Staples Center downtown that is wrapped in a block-long video screen and has penthouses that rent for $25,000 a month.

Kurve has two-story penthouses that the developers hope to rent for as much as $30,000 a month and include their own party-sized outdoor decks with capacious hot tubs that have city skyline views. Typical units are priced much lower, with a one bedroom going for about $3,000 a month.


A view of the one-acre rooftop park and pool at Kurve.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Resident Daniel Lee, who moved in shortly after Kurve opened in September, was more drawn to the sprawling one-acre roof deck than the bed-making and kitchen-spritzing services.

“I’ve never seen a rooftop walk that’s dog-friendly,” said Lee, who strolls with his mixed-breed Danni.

Lee likes that the dog can relieve herself on a special patch of artificial grass that drains into the sewer system. Where he lived earlier in Koreatown, “walking my dog at night was kind of dangerous.”


[size=1]A view from an upscale unit looking at Kurve’s one-acre rooftop park and pool.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)[/img]

Lee, who works at home at least two days a week as an IT specialist for a fashion company in Hollywood, likes to set up shop in Kurve’s co-working facilities where he can plop at a wooden desk or in a conference room. Such WeWork-style offices are becoming common amenities in new buildings as flexible work schedules become the norm and tenants look for places to concentrate outside of their apartments.

At Park Fifth in downtown Los Angeles, residents can work on an open deck on the 24th floor with views of nearby skyscrapers and Pershing Square park below.


On the 24th floor of the 24-story Park Fifth Tower in downtown L.A., residents can work on an open deck with views of skyscrapers and Pershing Square park below. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

“We have USB ports everywhere,” landlord Victor MacFarlane said, where tenants can hook up their laptops, and Wi-Fi throughout the property, including the garage.

The pandemic will accelerate the creation of common spaces where tenants can work from home, MacFarlane said, because many employers are expected to embrace flexible work schedules even after COVID-19 fades. The trend of creating welcoming spaces for tenants to hang out was already growing in part because units have been shrinking to keep tenants’ rents down as construction costs rise, he said.

They’re also required to remain competitive. Amenities that once made apartment buildings stand out are now baseline for high-end complexes, said MacFarlane, chairman and chief executive of MacFarlane Partners.


Fitness center with views of downtown at Park Fifth Tower. Amenities that once made apartment buildings stand out are now baseline for high-end complexes.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Having a nice gym and being pet-friendly are “a necessity today,” he said. “It’s not an option anymore. If you don’t have those things you’re not going to lease, nor are you going to get your rents.”

Kurve, Park Fifth and other buildings now come with furnished barbecue centers where tenants can host get- togethers. Big lockers to safely store e-commerce packages are getting common, and Park Fifth has refrigerated locker space for grocery deliveries.

Top-line gym equipment “and enough of it” are mandatory, MacFarlane said, along with spaces for classes such as aerobics, Pilates and yoga. Stationary bike rides in some buildings may be guided by instructors online or in person.

The 347-unit Park Fifth, which opened early last year, and a sister 313-unit building called Trademark built next door by MacFarlane Partners are both about 95% leased, MacFarlane said. To get renters in the downtown market where several luxury properties have come online in recent years, the landlord has been offering periods of free rent to tenants who sign one-year leases.


Park Fifth Tower has a rooftop deck with an infinity-edge pool, cabanas and hot tub. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

He hopes to stop giving rent concessions as the economy recovers and office workers return downtown, but the competition for renters now includes two fancy high-rises that were planned to be condominiums when they were built.

Thea, a 58-story skyscraper built in 2020 by Chinese developer Greenland USA as part of the Metropolis condo and hotel complex, became a 685-unit apartment building after the condo market proved too thin to support it. Prospective tenants are offered as much aseight weeks of free rent to sign a lease.

At the Grand, a $1-billion Frank Gehry-designed mixed-use complex across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, developer Related Cos. chucked the original plan to include a high-rise full of condos and will instead open 436 apartments there next year, including what Related calls “ultra premium” units at the top of the 45-story tower.


Resident Kevin Aquino relaxes on the rooftop deck at Park Fifth Tower in downtown L.A.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

“The majority of downtown L.A. residents are professionals who want to live close to their places of work and they want to rent,” said Rick Vogel, a senior vice president at Related. “Our leasing model reflects the growing demand for luxury apartment rentals full of first-class amenities, in a prime downtown L.A. location.”

Design can also be an amenity, as architects like Gehry bring flair to apartments — a commodity that seemed to disappear decades ago when stucco boxes and humble dingbats became the norm and provided low-cost housing. In recent years, many young professionals who make good money but move often or don’t want the hassles of home ownership have turned to apartment buildings with more style and status.

Chinese firm MAD Architects, known for its daring designs such as the “Star Wars” style Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, under construction near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, just announced a new apartment building in Denver that features a cascading canyon that appears to “carve” into the building’s façade, as if by natural forces.

MAD avoided calling the project an apartment building, describing the 187-units instead as “for-lease residences.”

Thousands of apartments have been built downtown in recent years, many of them in tall steel-framed buildings that are more costly to erect than the shorter wood-framed apartment complexes that are common in Los Angeles.

“It is very expensive to build here,” economist Richard Green said, citing lengthy processes to get projects approved, and high construction costs, including the price of land. Higher rents are one result, he said.

When it costs $500,000 per unit to build apartments, developers want monthly rents of $3,000 or more to turn a profit, said Green, who is the director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. That’s one reason downtown has higher-than-average vacancy, because tenants should be earning more than $100,000 a year to pay such rents.

In popular apartment markets from downtown west to the ocean, including Koreatown, vacancy is more than 5%, according to a recent USC Lusk Center Casden Forecast. Ordinarily that vacancy rate would be high enough to depress rents, but empty units are being rented fast enough to suggest only moderate increases in rents are coming in those neighborhoods.

As a result of changes to renter behavior during COVID-19 when people left urban centers, many markets outside of densely populated metropolitan neighborhoods are experiencing vacancy rates at historically low levels, the report said. Falling vacancies are causing steeper rent hikes in many suburbs than big cities are experiencing.

The forecast predicts that by the end of the third quarter of 2023, rents will increase over their current levels by $252 in Los Angeles County, $410 in Orange County, $348 in San Diego County, $310 in Ventura County, and $241 in the Inland Empire, which includes San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

This year, average rent in Los Angeles County is $2,073 and vacancy is 3.9%. In Orange County, average rent is $2,439 and vacancy is 2.1%.

New buildings will continue to compete on amenities, said MacFarlane, who is planning one of the biggest mixed-use projects in the works in Los Angeles. The Angels Landing project downtown would include two upmarket hotels, apartments, condominiums stores and restaurants in two towers, the tallest of which would be a 63-story skyscraper.


A view of Pershing Square from the rooftop deck at Park Fifth Tower in downtown L.A.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

MacFarlane and his co-developer R. Donahue Peebles intend to complete Angels Landing in time to serve people attending the 2028 Summer Olympics, and MacFarlane acknowledges that market-rate units in the buildings next to historic Angels Flight funicular railway on Bunker Hill will be pricey to rent. (Five percent of the 252 apartments will be subsidized at “affordable” rates, and additional affordable housing is expected to be added offsite.)

Construction will be especially costly because the developers will have to excavate five stories of dirt at a cost of about $93 million, helping bring the overall price tag to $1.6 billion.

The escalation of amenities will continue in years ahead, said Kurve developer Dobbins, who is building a new 490-unit apartment complex by the Vermont/Beverly subway station in Los Angeles. Among its features when it opens in 2023 will be music recording studios and rooms for online gaming.
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Old Posted Nov 14, 2021, 2:32 AM
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I'm surprised none of my fellow Angelenos have posted any reaction to the article about mid- and high-rise apartments above--if nothing else, the photos are pretty interesting!
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Organic grocery chain Erewhon to open in former Borders building on South Lake in Pasadena

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Old Posted Nov 30, 2021, 7:25 PM
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Some views of of Playa Vista / Westchester development from my run yesterday. Entrada looks pretty impressive (parking podium aside) in person.






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The run also made me realize the seriously need to improve the pedestrian infrastructure between those two nodes of development.

Playa Vista proper is immensely enjoyable to walk around (pocket parks, landscaping, wide sidewalks, etc.) and it is less than half a mile from "The Playa District" (previously Howard Hughes Center), but sidewalks randomly end, streets seemed focused just on shuttle pass through traffic as quick as they can, etc.

Lots of room to improve especially as they continue to close the gap between the two with projects like this - https://urbanize.city/la/post/westch...ken-apartments
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The 8150 Sunset project has resumed demolition. McDonalds closed finally and the parking lot is being torn up.

http://www.8150sunset.com/
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No photo, but can confirm that there’s a crane up at the site of 942 Broadway in Chinatown as of last Thursday. Can’t believe this is happening. With the forthcoming Regional Connector and project planned adjacent to LASHP, Chinatown is slowly but surely being integrated into DTLA proper.

https://urbanize.city/la/post/chinat...ion-apartments
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Organic grocery chain Erewhon to open in former Borders building on South Lake in Pasadena

https://www.cityofpasadena.net/city-...ooks-building/

I thought this place felt familiar!

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Erewhon is alluded to as "Anavrin" in the Netflix original series You; protagonist Joe Goldberg works at the store.

The name "Erewhon" is derived from the 1872 satirical novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler. In the novel, Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere") is a utopia in which individuals are responsible for their own health.
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No photo, but can confirm that there’s a crane up at the site of 942 Broadway in Chinatown as of last Thursday. Can’t believe this is happening. With the forthcoming Regional Connector and project planned adjacent to LASHP, Chinatown is slowly but surely being integrated into DTLA proper.

https://urbanize.city/la/post/chinat...ion-apartments
I really like that tower and that general area. Capitol mills, the new, wood frame office going up, blossom plaza and chinatown station... It's we can get the project overlooking the park to start, that will really be a game changer
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I really like that tower and that general area. Capitol mills, the new, wood frame office going up, blossom plaza and chinatown station... It's we can get the project overlooking the park to start, that will really be a game changer
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No photo, but can confirm that there’s a crane up at the site of 942 Broadway in Chinatown as of last Thursday. Can’t believe this is happening. With the forthcoming Regional Connector and project planned adjacent to LASHP, Chinatown is slowly but surely being integrated into DTLA proper.

https://urbanize.city/la/post/chinat...ion-apartments
Agreed. This is fantastic project all around. I get that the new Chinatown has moved on to places like Monterey Park, but old Chinatown is in need of some serious love. Would be great to see a modern, contemporary take on it to revitalize the area.
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7th & New Hampshire tower in Koreatown (https://urbanize.city/la/post/koreat...t-construction) looking quite nice last night! Nearly the height of the Bank of Hope Tower already.

Love to see more height in the already fantastic neighborhood.




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I really like that tower and that general area. Capitol mills, the new, wood frame office going up, blossom plaza and chinatown station... It's we can get the project overlooking the park to start, that will really be a game changer
That is the project I really hope blossoms into fruition.

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That is the project I really hope blossoms into fruition.

https://urbanize.city/la/post/chinat...ta-1251-spring
Ya that is one of my favorite proposals of all.
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7th & New Hampshire tower in Koreatown (https://urbanize.city/la/post/koreat...t-construction) looking quite nice last night! Nearly the height of the Bank of Hope Tower already.

Love to see more height in the already fantastic neighborhood.
While I truly appreciate all the project updates, it would be great if you could resize your photos to a more manageable size.
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While I truly appreciate all the project updates, it would be great if you could resize your photos to a more manageable size.
Totally. Best way to do that on this site?
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The new APM station located between T1 and T6 at LAX on Thursday. It's so cool driving into LAX and seeing aerials coming into the central terminal area.


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Totally. Best way to do that on this site?
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Walked by the Staples store at Wilshire and Cochran, where the 42-story tower is planned. Staples has closed, as well as the beauty-supply store in the (actual) historic building on the other side of the block at Cloverdale. There are no "For Lease" signs posted, so hopefully this bodes well for this moving to the next step.
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